An organization can sense and act on its own, but it has always had to borrow its reasoning from the humans it employs. Palantir's ontology hands it a living model of itself, AI supplies the capacity to reason over it, and together they might give the enterprise a functional intelligence of its own.

At her 250th birthday, America is still opening frontiers. Boosters settle into the arms of launch towers, machines think at scale, and drugs reach targets once thought undruggable. The rational position is an almost delusional optimism about what Americans build next.